Sheep Health, Husbandry and Disease - A Photographic Guide
Sheep Health, Husbandry and Disease - A Photographic Guide
Authors: Agnes Winter, Claire PythianThis comprehensive book covers all aspects of sheep health, husbandry and disease throughout the annual breeding cycle. Through extensive and detailed photographs it highlights the disease and welfare issues that can arise within the great variety of breeds and flock types. Written by two veterinary surgeons closely involved in sheep health, this book takes a veterinary view of husbandry and emphasizes the importance of keeping diseases out of a flock. From practical tasks such as how to check teeth, feet and udders, through to vaccination schedules, injection techniques and parasite control, it covers the whole life cycle of your flock.
609 colour photographs
Topics covered:
- Routine procedures
- Selecting breeding stock
- Internal and external parasites
- Tupping time
- Pregnancy and lambing ewes
- Lameness
- Selecting breeding stock
Publication date: April 2011
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: 246x189mm
Weight: Unknown
Extent:609 colour photgraphs
ISBN:9781847972354
Sheep Health, Husbandry and Disease - A Photographic Guide
List of AbbreviationsIntroduction
- Keeping Your Flock Secure
- Routine Procedures
- Selecting Breeding Stock
- Vaccination Schedules
- Feeding Sheep
- Thin Adult Sheep
- Internal and External Parasites
- Tupping Time
- Pregnancy
- Lambing Ewes
- Newborn Lambs to Two Weeks Old
- Lactating Ewes and Growing Lambs to Weaning
- Store, Fattening and Replacement Lambs
- Lameness
- Notifiable Diseases, Other Important Diseases and Problems
- Old, Sick, Injured and Dead Sheep and Lambs
- Routine Procedures
Further Information
Index
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